The land of gold. Reality versus fiction.(1855) By: Hinton Rowan Helper (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781534609020)

Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 - March 8, 1909) was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was acting as an agent of the North attempting to split Southerners along class lines led to Southern denunciations of 'Helperism

Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
ISBN-10: 1534609024
ISBN-13: 9781534609020
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2016
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.23d